“The B.S. Yediyurappa government in Karnataka is not doing itself any good by persisting in its state of denial…. The Karnataka government’s singular failure (and a mark of its double standards) is its inability to treat the problem as one of law and order. All right, so the government has made a few arrests, but it continues to give the impression that it had better be doing something else.

“A democratically elected government cannot use the “us and them” rhetoric even without intending to. If the law of the land is violated, and innocent people suffer as a result, the government’s first priority should be the re-assertion of the rule of law….

“The government must be perceived to stand for all people in Karnataka. But it seems more bent on looking for a conspiracy against itself and criticising the Centre’s advisories as hasty and deflecting attention from the issue of terrorism. “

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Yediyurappa has been blaming his government’s failures are due to the effect od Maata/Mantra conducted by Gowda & Sons, and he expects the situation is going to be normalised after he performs Yajna to counter the spell.
How can we expect anything better from our CEO

But I see that the print version(Bangalore edition) is always not very friendly with the Grand Old Party of India.

Look at these news sources(CNN IBN, NDTV/Aaj Tak Headlines Today, Times Now; The Hindu/New IE), it is like each media-house owes its allegiance to a political segment and every news item* is like answering/questioning the other political section! It is like no one’s representing the much clichéd Aam Admi!

Lightweights of Fernandes’s stripe naturally believe that they are embedded in an alternate power structure, one that doesn’t recognise the cabinet as paramount. For them, the party’s high command is the source of their authority. They have no incentive to work with their colleagues or the prime minister; indeed, they might think they have good reason to undermine the PM — for example, by periodically calling for Rahul Gandhi’s elevation.